Definition of ephor in English:

ephor

noun ˈɛfɔː

(in ancient Greece) each of five senior Spartan magistrates.
Example sentencesExamples
- The most important of the latter, the five annually elected ephors, had exceptionally wide and apparently unchallengeable powers during their year of office, though they could only hold the office once.
- But his view was in the minority: the majority were in favour of it, influenced by the opinion of an ephor, Sthenelaïdas, that the Spartans would win.
- There was a Council of Elders, an assembly, and the five ephors.
- The ephor was a magistrate of Sparta who contained and controlled the kings.
- At some date before 396 the ephors withdrew support from the faltering decarchies.

Derivatives

ephorate

noun

He was a Spartan commander during the Peloponnesian wars who first came to notice in 431 BC when he saved Methone from an Athenian seaborne attack, and this may have led to his election to the ephorate that autumn.
Example sentencesExamples
- He interceded with his son Agesipolis I to save the democratic leaders at Mantinea in 385, and wrote a pamphlet which seemingly accused his enemies of violating traditional Lycurgan laws and advocated abolition of the ephorate.

Origin

From Greek ephoros 'overseer', from epi 'above' + the base of horan 'see'.

Definition of ephor in US English:

ephor

noun

(in ancient Greece) one of five senior Spartan magistrates.
Example sentencesExamples
- There was a Council of Elders, an assembly, and the five ephors.
- But his view was in the minority: the majority were in favour of it, influenced by the opinion of an ephor, Sthenelaïdas, that the Spartans would win.
- The ephor was a magistrate of Sparta who contained and controlled the kings.
- At some date before 396 the ephors withdrew support from the faltering decarchies.
- The most important of the latter, the five annually elected ephors, had exceptionally wide and apparently unchallengeable powers during their year of office, though they could only hold the office once.

Origin

From Greek ephoros ‘overseer’, from epi ‘above’ + the base of horan ‘see’.

单词	ephor
释义	Definition of ephor in English: ephor noun ˈɛfɔː (in ancient Greece) each of five senior Spartan magistrates. Example sentencesExamples The most important of the latter, the five annually elected ephors, had exceptionally wide and apparently unchallengeable powers during their year of office, though they could only hold the office once. But his view was in the minority: the majority were in favour of it, influenced by the opinion of an ephor, Sthenelaïdas, that the Spartans would win. There was a Council of Elders, an assembly, and the five ephors. The ephor was a magistrate of Sparta who contained and controlled the kings. At some date before 396 the ephors withdrew support from the faltering decarchies. Derivatives ephorate noun He was a Spartan commander during the Peloponnesian wars who first came to notice in 431 BC when he saved Methone from an Athenian seaborne attack, and this may have led to his election to the ephorate that autumn. Example sentencesExamples He interceded with his son Agesipolis I to save the democratic leaders at Mantinea in 385, and wrote a pamphlet which seemingly accused his enemies of violating traditional Lycurgan laws and advocated abolition of the ephorate. Origin From Greek ephoros 'overseer', from epi 'above' + the base of horan 'see'. Definition of ephor in US English: ephor noun (in ancient Greece) one of five senior Spartan magistrates. Example sentencesExamples There was a Council of Elders, an assembly, and the five ephors. But his view was in the minority: the majority were in favour of it, influenced by the opinion of an ephor, Sthenelaïdas, that the Spartans would win. The ephor was a magistrate of Sparta who contained and controlled the kings. At some date before 396 the ephors withdrew support from the faltering decarchies. The most important of the latter, the five annually elected ephors, had exceptionally wide and apparently unchallengeable powers during their year of office, though they could only hold the office once. Origin From Greek ephoros ‘overseer’, from epi ‘above’ + the base of horan ‘see’.
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